BORN MIDDLESBROUGH 20/01/1897. SON OF ALEXANDER FARQUHARSON (1869-1930) & SARAH ANN HATTON (1872-1958), OF 101, LOWER EAST STREET, MIDDLESBROUGH, YORKSHIRE (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). WORKED AS A RIVET CATCHER (1911 CENSUS) LIVING AT 101 LOWER EAST STREET, MIDDLESBROUGH (PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A WOOD YARD LABOURER. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. HE WORKED AS A RIVETT CATCHER.
HE ENLISTED IN MIDDLESBROUGH, POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 26TH AUGUST 1915. SERVED WITH THE 8TH YORKSHIRE HUSSARS. KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 11/07/1916, AGED 19. HIS ARMY EFFECTS AND PENSION, WENT TO HIS MOTHER, SARAH.
HIS FATHER WAS BORN IN THORNABY. HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN STOCKTON, DURHAM. HIS HULL CONNECTION IS UNKNOWN?
HIS NAME IS COMMEMORATED ON THE WW1 MEMORIAL, AT ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, NEWINGTON, HULL.
